Change system date at startup.

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quovadis

Is it possible to change the system date during the boot process ?
In windows98 you could set the date in autoexec using a set command.
eg set date=04-04-05
Is there anyway to acomplish the same thing in xp?
Thanks
 
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Is it possible to change the system date during the boot process ?
In windows98 you could set the date in autoexec using a set command.
eg set date=04-04-05
Is there anyway to acomplish the same thing in xp?
Thanks
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My question is why do you ask? XP includes a handy dandy feature to sync
your clock automatically so if you did set the date and had the feature
enabled it would only change back to the real date and on top of that
changing the date has caused many problems for other users in the past.

Galen
 
Galen said:
In quovadis <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:




My question is why do you ask?
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Because I want to set the date to a certain date at startup.
XP includes a handy dandy feature to sync
your clock automatically so if you did set the date and had the feature
enabled it would only change back to the real date and on top of that
changing the date has caused many problems for other users in the past.
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Thats why I dont have that "feature" enabled and why I require to set
the date to a precise date for compatability.
Galen
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Thanks.
 
You can place DATE and other commands in the user's or machine's context at
HKCU|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

Strictly speaking the *SET DATE* command doesn't set the date but DATE does.
 
Jetro said:
You can place DATE and other commands in the user's or machine's context at
HKCU|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

Strictly speaking the *SET DATE* command doesn't set the date but DATE does.
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Thanks for that.
However I put a date=03-04-05 in both places but nothing happend.
am I missing something?
 
Create a batch file with the DATE command and create new REG_SZ key under
HKCU RUN leaf with this batch file name as data. DATE and TIME commands as
many others don't exist as independent executable files. They are the part
of Command Processor either COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE.
I have to warn you that TimeService might correct rigged Time and Date
quickly enough.
 
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